Online adaptation strategies for statistical machine translation in post-editing scenarios

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 3193-3203

  Martínez Gómez, Pascual ^a   Sanchis Trilles, Germán ^b   Casacuberta, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE INFORMÁTICA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Online learning; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; NOVEL METHODS; ON-LINE ADAPTATION; ONLINE LEARNING; ONLINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PERCEPTRON; POSTERIORI DISTRIBUTION; RIDGE REGRESSION; SCALING FACTORS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84861583387     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.01.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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